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Update on Ukraine.IrrussianalityImpossible victoryPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles? Another game of musical chairs? Zero Hedge"There Were No Calls, That’s Absolutely Crazy": How The Stock Market DiedTyler Durden

Not a good indicator of the business cycle, but it is a pretty fair indicator that inflation expectations are not rising. Zero HedgeRecession Red Flag Rears Its Ugly Head - Treasury Yield Curve Crashes To Post-Crisis Flats Tyler Durden

The U.S. political research firm that commissioned a dossier on Donald Trump while he was running for president said on Monday it would not comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee. ReutersFirm behind Trump dossier declines to respond to House panel's subpoena Mark HosenballAlso The three co-founders of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm responsible for overseeing the creation of the infamous “Trump dossier”, will refuse to comply with a...

Rumors confirmed. After months of speculation and conflicting messages, ministers have announced the Russian Federation is to issue its own official cryptocurrency - the CryptoRuble. The landmark development makes Russia the very first government in the world to official pursue virtual tender. China likely not to be far behind.Interesting article. Short and worth a read in full.Sputnik InternationalVladimir Putin Endorses Russia's New Cryptocurrency

Backgrounder on the British creation of Iraq.Sic Semper Tyrannis Kurdistan - yet another long term British and US policy triumphCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence...

It's about controlling the narrative. For the most part, “fake news” is a fake concept designed by the corporate news media to discredit those who challenge the official U.S. hegemonic narrative. The typical MSM fake news accusation starts with some egregious fictionalization and then morphs over to the real targets: the subversives, those who would dispute foundational elements of the official history or its recent approved updates. The New York Times building in Manhattan. (Photo...

The CP analysis says details of the Zhu-Jia face off recently surfaced in the Singapore daily Lianhe Zaobao. The island nation’s largest Chinese-language newspaper said the pair represented two distinct schools of thought on the security implications for China stirred by the North Korea crisis. “On one front, a conservative ‘leftist’ school sees the US and South Korea using Pyongyang’s nuclear program as a pretext to reduce China’s strategic space,” CP said in a summary of the Lianhe...

Backgrounder. Using government capture to favor special interests ("capital").TruthoutOut of Control: A Brief History of Neoliberal Deregulation in the USA T.J. Coles, Clairview Books | Book Excerpt

Book has finally been published. I just got my copies. And yes it is a critique of New Institutionalist views and the title a play with the Acemoglu and Robinson's book title. From the back cover. "The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment in the region. With new ideas have come new...